I went through AOL's process a couple years ago and it was not bad at all. Sounds like they made it worse, I don't remember any of that telnet/nslookup stuff.
Semi-related note, anyone know how to whitelist for hotmail.com// live.com? I used to use SNDS, which is linked from here: http://postmaster.msn.com/Services.aspx#ISPSolutions Now when you click the link, it just says: "The Windows Live Network is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons:" Jonathan Nicol Systems Administrator, Blue Gecko [email protected] O: 206-508-4750 C: 206-669-2170 F: 206-686-3349 On May 4, 2009, at 3:06 PM, seph wrote: > I've always heard that AOL's whitelisting process is a bit cumbersome, > but that it was entirely reasonable, especially given the volume of > mail > they deal with. But, now that I start trying to go through this > process, > I discover that it's crap. It's the epitome of useless technical > support. > > They require that my hosts all have telnet installed on them, so I can > cut and paste a telnet session. Because, you know, my mail server logs > aren't good enough and I love having random software installed on my > machines. > > They require that I use *nslookup*, and paste examples. host isn't > good > enough here. Let's hear it for lazy programming. > > Who knows what else, since I still need to jump through those two > hoops. > > Anyhow, I'm not sure there's much to discuss. I mostly just feel the > need to rant about their capricious and vacuous requirements. > > seph > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
